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LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s BBC should not be able to pursue criminal prosecutions against viewers for not paying the TV licence fee, Culture Secretary Lucy Frazer said, adding that an examination of the broadcaster’s powers would be in its next charter review. Convictions for not paying the licence fee are in the spotlight after Britain’s Post Office used its own powers to wrongly convict hundreds of its branch managers for false accounting, fraud and theft since the turn of the century. “I don’t think it’s appropriate for the BBC to have criminal tools in its armoury in relation to prosecut…